5 Cloud Migration Experiences Not to Be Repeated

As a project manager at HOSTING, Kellen Amobi has assisted in many customer data migrations over the years. During the live webinar, Kellen will be sharing top five migration mistakes that companies have made in the past and what experience has taught her about resolving the issues quickly, including:

At HOSTING, we understand the importance of setting up success criteria (KPIs) that measure IT's impact (value) in direct partnership with the Business.

Join me, Tricia Pattee, Director of Managed Services, for the webinar, KPI: Aligning Your IT and Business Objectives on December 15th at 3 PM EST. During the live event, I will be going over common problem areas that companies run into when trying to integrate both the IT and Business departments in order to achieve objectives. The following touchpoints will be covered:

- How to define IT objectives
- Common challenges
- Common Approach Challenges
- Common Tool Challenges
- Proposed Strategies

No company is safe from a Ransomware attack (malicious forms of software programmed to steal company data and hold it for "ransom"). However, technology has allowed us to mitigate these attacks by implementing proper recovery systems that can ensure that cyber criminals will not see a dime from your business.

Join me, Ed Schaefer, Director of Cloud Services at HOSTING, and Donal Farrell, Cloud Architect at Zerto, on November 10th at 3 PM EST for the live webinar, "Ransomware: Mitigation through Preparation". During the event, we will be going over:

-The origin and rise of the current wave of Ransomware threats
- What businesses are most vulnerable to these types of attacks
- Security practices that you can adopt to protect your company data

"Cyberhunting" actively looks for signs of compromise within an organization and seeks to control and minimize the overall damage. These rare, but essential, breed of enterprise cyber defenders give proactive security a whole new meaning.

Join me, Mike McCracken, Director of Professional Services at HOSTING, and Chris Dodunski, CTO of Phirelight Security Solutions on October 27th at 3 PM EST for the live webinar, Cyber Threat Hunting: A New Dimension of Cyber Intelligence.

Larry Collins, Product Manager at HOSTING and James Askham, Solutions Engineer at CloudFlare

The threat of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is a growing problem for mission-critical websites, such as eCommerce shops, SaaS applications, gaming forums, and University portals; in addition, politically or artistically important organizations and journalists can be especially at risk of attack, due to the nature of their website content.

The company CloudFlare delivers DDoS protection to over 4,000,000 websites globally, from personal blogs to large enterprises, while also offering a free protection program for respected free speech, public interest, and civil society organizations, called “Project Galileo”.

Join Larry Collins, Product Manager at HOSTING, and special guest, James Askham, Solutions Engineer at CloudFlare, on October 20th at 3 PM EST for the webinar Hacktivism Culture: DDoS 101. During the live event, they will go over:

•What a DDoS attack is from a technical perspective
•The most common types of DDoS attacks
•Best practices for mitigating against these attacks and how CloudFlare’s “Project Galileo” protects political and artistic organizations.

With the widespread use of connected devices, hackers have configured new ways to access your smartphones and laptops, even without you knowing. The Pineapple is a router that stages a fake WIFI access point, compromising the security of any smart device that unknowingly connects to it. During the live webinar, Johan Hybinette, CISO at HOSTING, will be going over the following discussion points:

- The technical makeup of the pineapple router
- How the Pineapple hacks into connected devices
- What personal information is at the most risk
- What you can do to protect yourself from this malicious form of identity theft

Recently the president of the American Medical Association referred to healthcare IT as the “snake oil” of the 21st century. He referenced ineffective electronic health records, an explosion of direct-to-consumer digital health products, and apps of mixed quality.

In this webinar, leading healthcare expert, Marion Jenkins, will cover the major causes of this sorry state of affairs, and discuss how healthcare technologies can actually help medical practices deliver better patient care.

Major areas to be covered:

1.Who is to blame? There is plenty to go around. Physicians? Healthcare IT vendors? The government? The solution must get past blame and address solutions.

2.How can clinical users and executives “break through” the logjam of sub-optimal IT systems, poor implementation, and ineffective workflows?

3.Is it possible to utilize new technologies to improve patient care, without breaking the bank and further hurting the clinician/patient experience?

4.What are the necessary changes that enable technology to actually provide benefit in a healthcare setting?

As a project manager at HOSTING, Kellen Amobi has assisted in many customer data migrations over the years. During the live webinar, Kellen will be sharing top five migration mistakes that companies have made in the past and what experience has taught her about resolving the issues quickly, including:

Manny Segarra, Agile Coach at HOSTING, will dive into a discussion on the benefits that values have on company culture. During the webinar, Manny will hit on a few key benefits of incorporating more accountability and respect into your everyday office practices, including:

-Building a stronger work culture, not just a stronger environment
-Improving morale
-Creating a more agile team

Join Catherine Roy, Director of PMO at HOSTING, and Kellen Amobi, Project Manager at HOSTING, on June 23 at 3 pm EST for Cloud Migration: Tales from the Trenches – an interactive webinar, in which they will discuss:

-Developing scopes and deadlines for complex projects
-Developing realistic schedules
-How to approach and define problems for c-level and team members

Brian Frank, Sr. Manager of Technical Delivery at HOSTING, and Melissa Schultz, Project Manager at HOSTING, will be discussing why your organization needs to invest in disaster recovery solutions and how to do it. He will cover:

-DR and business continuity
-Key considerations for business continuity
-Preparing for disasters
-DR testing
-How to implement your DR plan and run book

Over the past five years, cloud computing has become an essential element in an organization’s IT mix. At the same time, savvy IT decision-makers want to manage potential security risks involved when migrating their organization’s business-critical data to the cloud. Join Johan Hybinette, HOSTING’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and Cliff Turner, Alert Logic’s Solution Architect for this interactive webinar.
Johan and Cliff will answer your cloud security questions including:
•What are key challenges that IT leaders face when planning for a cloud migration?
•What security factors should you consider when considering a hosted vs. on-premises solution?
•As your business moves to a cloud-based infrastructure, how do you adapt your IT security strategy?
•How do you make sure that your security policies are robust and implemented correctly by your teams and partners?
Bring your cloud questions and be prepared to walk away with key insights from two of the industry’s top thought leaders!

As the Internet of Things encourages businesses to embrace big data, IT professionals turn to online resources to house and manage applications. However, cyber attacks are increasingly becoming a matter of “when,” not “if,” leading IT professionals to seek robust security solutions. Still on the fence about whether your small to medium sized enterprise really needs that much protection? Join Tricia Pattee, Product Manager at HOSTING, for a 30 minute webinar about scary facts about online security you need to know. Bring your questions – we’ll host a Q&A at the end of the presentation.

Business are moving more IT operations into the cloud, and storing more types of data in more cloud environments. To secure your private, public and hybrid cloud deployments, you need to be aware of the constantly changing data threat landscape to ensure you have the right cloud data security services and cloud provider to protect your sensitive assets. Do you have the data security services you need?

Join Andy Kicklighter, Director of Marketing from Vormetric, and Larry Collins, Product Manager from HOSTING, as they share the latest trends in the data threat landscape for cloud, big data and Internet of Things (IoT). They will review the most recent data security insights collected from 1000+ IT professionals like you and provide recommendations to protect your business data in your cloud environment.

This means that if you are still running SQL Server 2005 after April 12, 2016, you will no longer receive security updates. Now is the time to upgrade to SQL Server 2014 and Azure SQL Database to achieve breakthrough performance, maintain security and compliance, and optimize your data platform infrastructure.

Join Rodney Landrum, Senior SQL Server Consultant and Microsoft MVP and Michael McCracken, HOSTING Director of Advanced Solutions, as they discuss key benefits to moving to a SQL Server 2014 and key considerations to take into account when migrating your databases.

Michael McCracken, Director of Professional Services and Joey D'Antoni , Microsoft MVP and Professional Services Consultant

Join Michael McCracken, HOSTING Director of Professional services and Dave Bermingham, Microsoft cloud and Data Center MVP, to examine the TCO of high availability and disaster recovery protection for SQL Server deployments with surprising results. They will cover:

-How to save thousands of dollars by reducing licensing and hardware costs while still delivering complete HA and DR protection
-How to create a failover cluster using SQL Server standard edition
How to create a Windows cluster in a cloud without the need for shared storage

Michael McCracken, Director of Professional Services at HOSTING, Bill Krasner, Sales & Business Development at Intelivideo

Secure media content delivery and consumption is rapidly changing. Today's producers need a platform to securely deliver their media and understand how their customers consume it. Join me, Michael McCracken, Director of Professional Services at HOSTING, Bradley Brown, Founder and President at Intelivideo, and William Krasner, Sales & Business Development at Intelivideo Thursday, February 18th at 3:00pm ET for Content Delivery in an On-Demand Age -- an interactive, one-hour live discussion where we will answer questions like:

•How are your customers consuming media?
•What devices do they watch it on?
•How long do they stick around?
•Are they streaming the content or downloading and watching it later?
•How is the content protected?

The webinar will be followed by a Q&A, so come prepared with your questions for our strategy and security experts.

HOSTING is a leading provider of managed cloud hosting services for mission-critical applications. Using enterprise-class networking and connectivity technologies, we provide the highest levels of availability, recovery, security, and responsiveness. We own and operate six geographically-dispersed data centers across the United States under an ITIL-based control environment independently validated for compliance against the PCI DSS and SOC (formerly SAS 70) frameworks. We offer monthly How To and Best Practices webinars for Managed Cloud Hosting.